There's a nice /. discussion going on at the moment about the Large Hadron Collider, so i figured it might be nice for us to have a thread, too.
This article in the New York Times is very shiny. The photos are nice.
2000 physicists from 34 countries, a few thousand miles of wire at least, and an apparatus that's about 10km across and worth eight billion dollars.
It's going to blow the secrets of the universe wide open. This is a good thing.
I'm not sure what else to say on it, so i'll wait for everyone else to get some discussion and questions happening.
A nice pic of what actually goes on inside the vacuum vessel "pipes" holding the dipole magnets:
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern...cryodipole.jpg
Of course, if the Suerconducting Supercollider was ever built, its centre of mass energy would still be far in excess of that of the LHC.
This article in the New York Times is very shiny. The photos are nice.
2000 physicists from 34 countries, a few thousand miles of wire at least, and an apparatus that's about 10km across and worth eight billion dollars.
It's going to blow the secrets of the universe wide open. This is a good thing.
I'm not sure what else to say on it, so i'll wait for everyone else to get some discussion and questions happening.
A nice pic of what actually goes on inside the vacuum vessel "pipes" holding the dipole magnets:
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern...cryodipole.jpg
Of course, if the Suerconducting Supercollider was ever built, its centre of mass energy would still be far in excess of that of the LHC.
